Repeated trans-watershed hybridization among haplochromine cichlids (Cichlidae) was triggered by Neogene landscape evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1746, 2012, Pages 4389-4398

  Schwarzer, Julia ^a,b   Swartz, Ernst Roelof ^c   Vreven, Emmanuel ^d,e   Snoeks, Jos ^d,e   Cotterill, Fenton Peter David ^f   Misof, Bernhard ^b   Schliewen, Ulrich Kurt ^a  

^a ZOOLOGISCHE STAATSSAMMLUNG MÜNCHEN   (Germany)

^b ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^e Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics   (Belgium)

^f STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

East African cichlid radiations; Haplochromines; Hybridization; Neogene landscape evolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CICHLID; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; HYBRIDIZATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENETICS; PLIOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); WATERSHED;

ANGOLA; CONGO BASIN; CONGO RIVER; CUANZA BASIN; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE MALAWI; LAKE TANGANYIKA; LAKE VICTORIA;

AFRICAN CICHLIDS; CICHLIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866880244     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1667     Document Type: Article

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